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Monday, May 15th, 2023 2:09 AM

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Character set extension

It would be great if imdb expanded the character set for writing movie and person names. My name contains the character "š", but on the name page I have "s" instead of this character. In order for my name to be spelled correctly, the character set would have to be extended by at least "Latin Extended-A". I guess I'm not the only one who has a garbled name due to this lack.

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2 years ago

Tomaš: While IMDb has been planning for full implementation of Unicode, and they have added certain character sets for certain purposes, they first announced their intent to implement Unicode 26 years ago (see here). So I can't predict when the "š" in your name will be available for use.

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IMDb now supports these character in the attribute field, so you can enter the attribute "as Tomaš Wenigr". You can see this with some of the newer productions like The Ark

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@adrian​ I know about this possibility, but I still find it a shame that some names are changed due to the outdated system. In addition, google has generated a knowledge panel about me that pulls information from this page and I have the wrong name in it.